Gentlemen, can we please stop the personal sniping on this thread?

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

Good for you!

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

The way people like you describe "creeping globalism" as though it's a "thing" that can be contained and managed never fails to amuse me.

When will you realise it just isn't. It is simply a reflection of an ever-changing, ever evolving world. Some would call it progress but not all change brings instant benefits. It sometimes takes time for the good to take precedence over the bad and for evolution to work it's magic.

The global economy is real. It's an unstoppable tide which cannot be avoided. You either adapt to it or be swamped by it.

Politicians who use promises of protecting people from the impact of globalisation as their ladder to power are the worst kind of confidence tricksters. Trump being the most obvious recent example.

There is no need at all to assume that either our culture or sovereignty will be damaged by globalisation. We just need to ensure we prepare effectively and assimilate any of our new citizens. Welcoming them, teac ofhing them and not ostracising them is what is required and is actually what is very effectively being done. Often quietly and without any fuss.

The short term floods of refugees and/or economic migrants are a difficult and probably insolvable problem that can only be mitigated but never eradicated. It's not really a result of globalisation but more a consequence of wars and poverty. Some level of containment is the best we can hope for which demands a common approach and is another argument for us to have remained a member of the EU.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (05 May 2021 12.21pm)

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I would check if a certain poster is a previously banned one. Spiderman reckons Pussay Patrol, I was betting on Nick Gusset. They must love us so much, they can never leave.

Red and Blue Army!

I’d put my money on Gusset - same inability to see that there are other equally valid opinions. But could be either.

Edited by Helmet46 (05 May 2021 11.19am)

Nothing is unstoppable.

There are some aspects of globalism that we all like.

Cheap goods and the availability and variety of commodities is certainly something that improves our lives.
Sadly, the cost of that is sweat shops, stagnating wages, economic refugees, the frightening influence of media and the reduction of power of national governments.

You have to ask yourself, who exactly will it be who governs our brave new world? If we have these huge blocks of countries increasingly run by decreasingly undemocratic federal governments then what will happen to national culture? National interests? What of the quality of life for the average person?

Globalism has come about via the decisions of human beings. You can attach some sort of Darwinian or even Dawkinsian explanation to it if you like but on a political level we are able shift our thinking. We have the ability to recognize that this planet will never be a Star Trekian like place where we all hold hands and that there will be many more losers than winners.

Only a huge shift in attitudes will rescue this world from a dire fate which will involve poverty, starvation, overcrowding, conflict and the removal of any sort of even remotely democratic system.
Ultimately, there will a total breakdown of society as people become dehumanised by the environment they will be exposed to.

Have a nice day.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (05 May 2021 12.40pm)